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This method is guided by a nonlinear discrimination function, where the user-inference is captured by the Polynomial Mahalanobis distance, prioritizing, during the merging process, the regions with higher similarity to the user selected pattern. The WCSC has color distribution pattern-oriented characteristic, showing better coherence among the segments with higher similarity to the selected pattern. A qualitative evaluation and parametric paired analysis were performed to compare CSC, WCSC and other segmentation methods results, using images from Berkeley benchmark. 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